"Why are you back again?" Gu Yueji asked in surprise when she saw Ren Jin come in.
"The debt collectors are here, so I'm hiding here for a bit," Ren Jin said, half-jokingly.
He laughed after saying that. His own father coming to collect the house was just like collecting a debt.
Upon hearing this, Gu Yueji's eyes widened. "How come you owe someone money?"
She always assumed he was struggling financially, but she never imagined he was also in debt.
Ren Jin lowered his head to change his shoes and replied casually, "Who doesn't owe money these days? Don't you owe money too?"
Gu Yueji paused, speechless at his words. But then she remembered that no one had ever come to her door to collect debts, so she pressed him for an answer: "Did you borrow from loan sharks? Why are they coming to your door? How much do you owe?"
Ren Jin turned around and saw her nervous look, and suddenly wanted to tease her, "It's quite a lot, do you want to help me pay some back?"
Gu Yueji frowned. "Where would I get the money to help you pay it off? You know I'm drowning in debt."
Ren Jin listened to her talk about paying off debts every day, but he never knew how much she owed, or how much that pile of debt was.
Ask her directly, "How much money do you actually owe?"
Gu Yueji didn't hide anything, "About 300,000."
Ren Jin was stunned for a moment. She owed more money than he had expected; he thought it would be at most a few hundred thousand.
Then he asked, "How much has been repaid?"
"Half, I guess."
Ren Jin frowned more and more as he listened, recalling her cursing Ye Zurong on the phone earlier. "Is this debt yours, or your dead ex-boyfriend's?"
This was the first time Ren Jin had brought up Ye Zurong on his own initiative. Gu Yueji felt a little awkward talking to him about Ye Zurong, but since he was staring at her as if he needed an answer, she awkwardly began to explain.
"It's hard to say who owes it. When Ye Zurong wanted to start a business, he couldn't get a loan because he hadn't paid off his student loan, so he had to use my name to apply for a bank loan. He was the one who dragged me into starting the business, but he didn't hold a gun to my head and force me to do it, so I guess I also bear some responsibility."
Gu Yueji has come to terms with it. When she was young, she loved someone and thought it would last forever. She was very foolish and naive to believe everything that person said. She considers her current debts as paying for her youthful ignorance. Moreover, Ye Zurong is already married, and she doesn't want to have any more entanglements with him.
However, when Ren Jin heard her relieved tone, he realized that Gu Yueji was willing to help her ex-boyfriend pay off his debts, but she refused him outright.
"So you're willing to help your ex-boyfriend pay off his debts but not me?" he asked with a mocking expression.
Gu Yueji was taken aback by his sudden questioning and became displeased. "Why should I pay back the money you owe? Why don't you help me pay it back?"
Ren Jin was already furious, and her retort only fueled the fire. "Why should I pay back the money you owed for another man? Am I a sucker? Have I ever made you scrimp and save to spend money on me? If you're so capable, find the person who made you borrow the money to pay it back. I won't be that kind of sucker!"
He didn't want to hide it anymore and spilled the beans, "Are you still waiting for your boyfriend to come back?"
Gu Yueji's eyes widened in surprise. "How is that possible!"
Ren Jinchao stretched out his hand and pointed to the room. "Then why have you been keeping his clothes? Are you keeping them for him to wear when he comes back?" He stared at her menacingly.
Half of Ye Zurong's clothes are still in her closet, while his clothes are left to dry on the balcony, always!
Gu Yueji only remembered the clothes when he asked her. Actually, Ye Zurong had thrown away all his things that were visible in the house, except for that whole closet of clothes. She had been looking for a place to donate clothes but hadn't found one, so she had forgotten about it. She just didn't expect that Ren Jin had been concerned about those things all along.
She came to her senses and tried to explain, but Ren Jin had already gotten up and left, the door being slammed open so hard that the whole room shook.
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After Ren Jin slammed the door and left, he neither answered the phone nor replied to WeChat messages. Gu Yueji didn't want to have a cold war with him, so she cooked a table full of dishes according to Ren Jin's tastes for dinner. She had already sent him a WeChat message beforehand, and although Ren Jin didn't reply, she felt that he would come back.
Sure enough, they ate half an hour later than usual, and the sound of the door opening came from outside.
Seeing the food on the table, Ren Jin's expression softened somewhat, but he still had a cold face throughout the meal. This was the first time he hadn't finished the food she had prepared.
Gu Yueji didn't say anything. After taking a shower that night, she returned to her room and Ren Jin leaned against the headboard, scrolling through his phone.
She stood at the doorway, watching him scroll through his phone, deliberately ignoring her, and couldn't help but laugh. This man's tantrums were just like a child's.
She doesn't like to have cold wars with others. She prefers to talk things out and admit who is right and wrong. She feels stifled by the awkwardness of it all.
So she walked to the bed where Ren Jin was lying, lifted her nightgown, straddled him, and sat directly on his lap.
Ren Jin suddenly looked up at her, his eyes asking her what she was doing.
Gu Yueji pressed her chest against his chest and rubbed against him.
The soft, yielding feeling made Ren Jin place one hand on her slender, concave waist and pinch it. "Are you looking for death?"
Provoke him when he's angry.
Gu Yueji wrapped her arms around his neck and explained, "I wasn't in the mood to throw those clothes away before, and now I just haven't found a place to throw them away. I'll just throw them all in the trash can tomorrow, okay?"
With her pouting red lips, alluring eyes, and coquettish tone, Ren Jin discovered that he was very susceptible to Gu Yueji's submissive behavior towards him, especially in bed.
That night, Gu Yueji experienced for the first time the consequences of Ren Jin's anger, which was that he became even worse and more unrestrained, to the point that Gu Yueji was the one who got angry afterward.
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